the clowns are clowning again. Is bojo as sycophantic a freak as scomo though

David Frum is on CNN and besides ridiculously spinning Biden's numbers to make them seem not that bad - he actually just said "Maybe there's something in the voters and not the candidate."

Israel’s UN ambassador said Sunday that he wore a yellow star at a recent Security Council hearing to “shock” the body into condemning Hamas, after his action drew rebukes even from home.

Gilad Erdan’s choice a week ago to wear the badge, which has come to symbolize the oppression of Jews since its imposition in Nazi-occupied Europe, was swiftly criticized by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, which urged him to wear the Israeli flag instead.

“This act disgraces the victims of the Holocaust as well as the state of Israel,” the memorial’s chair Dani Dayan said in a Hebrew-language post on X, formerly Twitter.

Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Erdan defended the move and denounced the Security Council again for its “silence” over the unprecedented attacks by Hamas Palestinian militants against Israel on October 7.

“I just want to emphasize that my goal was to first of all shock the Security Council,” Erdan said of his controversial choice to wear the star.

The deeply divided 15-member body has yet to adopt a single resolution on the attack or on Israel’s decision to launch a retaliatory war against Hamas.

“I wanted to shock them. I wanted to remind them of their silence and I wanted to convey a message that we - not like in the past - we are not weak as we were during the Holocaust,” Erdan said Sunday.

That's The Guardian quoting Agence France-Presse.

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I'd like to meet Gilad Erdan in private. And have a pleasant discussion about the yellow star and Minecraft.

Just a few hours after I pointed out it was bullshit but the Labour ghouls were coming for him anyway, Andy McDonald has been suspended.

Palestinian ambassador to UN says Israeli strike on Jabalya refugee camp was a crime

Ambassador Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, said the Israeli strike on the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza was a crime and urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take action.

Mansour made the comments upon leaving a UN meeting on Tuesday, saying the ICC should hold those responsible for the lethal airstrike.

“Those who are responsible for giving the orders for that crime should hear something from Mr. Khan from the ICC,” Mansour told CNN in reference to ICC prosecutor Karim Khan. “If he has the courage, and I hope he does. We appreciate the fact that [he] came to the crossing, Rafah crossing, and he made a statement there. But it would be also nice to issue a warrant of arrest for those who are responsible for such crimes," Mansour said.

When asked whether Egypt should allow the entry of refugees from Gaza, Mansour replied “no.”

Some context: According to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces, the airstrike targeted and killed Ibrahim Biari, whom it described as one of the Hamas commanders responsible for the October 7 attack on Israel, which left than 1,400 people dead and hundreds taken hostage.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-31-23/h_02a679011417d5e7db852530397b7608

UAW Wins Tentative Contract Deal With Final Big Three Holdout General Motors which means that, for now, the strike is paused until membership decides whether or not to ratify the agreements.

More from former UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness

Gunness has said there is a very real prospect of communicable diseases spreading in Gaza amid widespread displacement and the lack of clean water and other critical supplies.

“That’s the prospect, and let’s be clear, this is a matter of political choice,” he told Al Jazeera.

“This is a humanitarian catastrophe which world leaders in giving Israel a greenlight to continue … the war, they are responsible for this.”

-Al Jazeera

wake up babe new Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah teaser dropped

I love the man but he has gotten the Zelenskyvirus of Hollywoodification of war

folks, this operation was massive, yuge

This volatile dynamic along their borders resulted in the peculiar situation wherein Arab leaders often raised the question of Palestine because of popular pressure but refrained from actually doing anything about it, out of fear of Israel's might and the disapproval of the great powers. The Palestine issue thus became a political football exploited at will by opportunistic politicians, as each sought to outbid the other in proclaiming their devotion to it. Palestinians witnessing this cynical game eventually realized that if anything was to be done about their cause, they would have to do it themselves.

From The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.

Cooking a pumpkin soup this evening and used some Aleppo peppers and I couldn’t help but think of Gary Johnson’s “Aleppo moment”

⭕ الدفاعات الجوية لمصر والسعودية والأردن والبوارج الحربية الامريكية والبريطانية شاركت بالتصدي للهجوم اليمني على ايلات

Sisi, Al Saud, and King Abdullah should all be thrown in the cuckoit

Realistically the odds of Nasrallah one day appearing on TAFS are greater than zero.

Video of Al-Qassam Navy launching a torpedo:

https://streamable.com/wrmqoq

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ Israel stops offensive in residential areas of Gaza

Several Israeli tanks, which broke into the Gaza Strip and blocked the main road connecting the northern and southern regions, left the enclave. According to the press service of the Palestinian government, Israel is not conducting offensive operations in residential areas of the sector.

This is also from earlier and is probably related to the video the tank incursion attacking a civilian vehicle here.

Israel's defence minister says 'this will not be an easy war' Ahead of a news conference by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is speaking.

"This will not be an easy an war," he says. "For the sake of our hostages we are determined to win. We are fighting for our hostages."

- BBC

Real

IDF: We are now carrying out shellings and targeted airstrikes against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon

The Israeli military has encircled Gaza City, IDF spokesman says

The Israeli military has completed its encirclement of Gaza City, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Thursday.

The Israeli engineering corps is now working to locate and neutralize underground infrastructure, explosives and other threats to allow the IDF to move freely in the area, Hagari said.

Earlier Thursday, Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the Israeli military is surrounding Gaza City and "deepening" its operations there.

“Our forces are in very significant areas of Gaza City,” Halevi said.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-02-23/h_8b638e928ef6886c41b8954f3a197a15

I've been away for 2 days. Did anything noteworthy happen? Are certain factions still writing angry letters or making threats about doing something?

Hamas military wing publish scenes of its fighters launching RPG and TBG shells on Israeli infantry units hiding in several buildings in Beit Hanoun. 03/11/2023

https://nitter.cz/ytirawi/status/1720820128160370975

Translation: "The enemy has attacked the women, the children and the elderly"

The video ends with Takbeer Eid

Build Back Better, but for ethnic cleansing.

The attempted trial of French leftists for a 'terrorist conspiracy' seems to be falling apart, but knows if that matters or it's just a show trial by the state. Jacobin

Israeli commander says forces ‘at the gates of Gaza City’

Brigadier General Itzik Cohen said that Israeli troops were deep inside Gaza, “at the gates of Gaza City”.

Speaking to reporters in southern Israel, he said Israeli forces have “we have destroyed much of Hamas’s abilities”, including by attacking strategic facilities and underground tunnels.

He added his division, the 162nd Division, had “received an important task, to go and decisively finish Hamas”.

-Al Jazeera